Anonymous wrote:What's with all these doomsday posts about Maryland?

There is a small (I hope) but loud group of people who really, really hate everything that has happened in Montgomery County since 1975.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, on my street in Chevy Chase, the exodus is occurring. All families have left for greener pastures and the foreclosure rate is spiking. Thieves are running rampant in order to steal copper from the abandoned homes.

I don't go out at night for fear of being mugged or being mistaken for a rival gang member. Corner boys selling H have replaced crossing guards and soccer moms.

The decay is only accelerating. They've renamed the once tony enclaves.

Chevy Chase Sections 8, 8, and 8

Rolling'Hood

Murder's Additions

Chevy Chase'in the Dragon

To be fair there has always (since the 80s at least) been a Chevy Chase Section 8, the “something isn’t quite like the rest” parts on the eastern stretches near silver spring. Kids at BCC have been making fun of that area for decades

Parts of Silver Spring that fed into BCC like Summit Hills was really bad when I grew up. We were not allowed to visit friends there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, on my street in Chevy Chase, the exodus is occurring. All families have left for greener pastures and the foreclosure rate is spiking. Thieves are running rampant in order to steal copper from the abandoned homes.

I don't go out at night for fear of being mugged or being mistaken for a rival gang member. Corner boys selling H have replaced crossing guards and soccer moms.

The decay is only accelerating. They've renamed the once tony enclaves.

Chevy Chase Sections 8, 8, and 8

Rolling'Hood

Murder's Additions

Chevy Chase'in the Dragon

To be fair there has always (since the 80s at least) been a Chevy Chase Section 8, the “something isn’t quite like the rest” parts on the eastern stretches near silver spring. Kids at BCC have been making fun of that area for decades

Grow up

Anonymous wrote:What's with all these doomsday posts about Maryland?

Envy and inferiority complex

Um.. tons of my neighbors are Asians.. Like a lot and they're all white-collared professionals with young kids going to MoCo elementary schools.

Its bene going on for years. Before it was to Howard and AA counties. More tech jobs are in VA so it makes sense to move vs. commute.

What's with all these doomsday posts about Maryland?

Anonymous wrote:This just seems to contradict actual census numbers which show that while growth has slowed, it is still growing. The population growth slowed to .41% in 2018, but over the last non-calendar year, growth is estimated at .77%.

The percentage of Asians also seems to grow each year.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/md/montgomery-county-population/

With the record amounts of rain fall I would be surprised is the Asians didn’t seem to grow every year.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, on my street in Chevy Chase, the exodus is occurring. All families have left for greener pastures and the foreclosure rate is spiking. Thieves are running rampant in order to steal copper from the abandoned homes.

I don't go out at night for fear of being mugged or being mistaken for a rival gang member. Corner boys selling H have replaced crossing guards and soccer moms.

The decay is only accelerating. They've renamed the once tony enclaves.

Chevy Chase Sections 8, 8, and 8

Rolling'Hood

Murder's Additions

Chevy Chase'in the Dragon

To be fair there has always (since the 80s at least) been a Chevy Chase Section 8, the “something isn’t quite like the rest” parts on the eastern stretches near silver spring. Kids at BCC have been making fun of that area for decades

This just seems to contradict actual census numbers which show that while growth has slowed, it is still growing. The population growth slowed to .41% in 2018, but over the last non-calendar year, growth is estimated at .77%.

The percentage of Asians also seems to grow each year.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/md/montgomery-county-population/

I find more leaving Virginia because they are tired off crossing a river to get anywhere they really want to go.

Yes, on my street in Chevy Chase, the exodus is occurring. All families have left for greener pastures and the foreclosure rate is spiking. Thieves are running rampant in order to steal copper from the abandoned homes.

I don't go out at night for fear of being mugged or being mistaken for a rival gang member. Corner boys selling H have replaced crossing guards and soccer moms.

The decay is only accelerating. They've renamed the once tony enclaves.

Chevy Chase Sections 8, 8, and 8

Rolling'Hood

Murder's Additions

Chevy Chase'in the Dragon

If you believe complaints on DCUM are representative of anything in the real world, you are mistaken. The VA schools forum is all about how VA schools are a disaster. As is the MD schools forum. And the private school forum is also full of complaints. And for that matter, the relationships forum is full of complaints about marriage and the family forum is full of complaints about in-laws. DCUM is wildly disproportionately full of posts full of complaints. And this is because if you are reasonably happy with your school, neighborhood, spouse, family, etc. — which most people are! — they do not post here.

Anyone who reads the VA boards knows they have similar complaints. And right now the speculators are pushing up VA prices based on the hopes that Amazon employees will pay the inflated amounts..not the time to if you do not have $$ to risk.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe people just don't like your neighborhood?

lol. NoVa is also having terrible issues with over crowding, and I believe boundaries are being redrawn there, as well.

-signed an Asian American parent who is staying put in Moco, as are the other Asian families I know.

Also, if there is such an exodus, what's with all the new development going on everywhere in the county. It's crazy how much housing development I'm seeing, and these condos near the metro stations are going for $600K+.